Quest is an American digital multicast television network owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in travel, historical, science, and adventure-focused documentary and reality series aimed at adults between the ages of 25 and 54.
The network, which broadcasts in 480i standard definition, is available in several large and mid-sized markets via digital subchannel affiliations with broadcast television stations. Stations have the option of placing their Quest-affiliated subchannels on cable television providers serving their market (via existing carriage agreements for local broadcast stations) to provide additional local coverage.
History
The formation of Quest was announced on November 7, 2017, as a partnership between Cooper Media (a company formed at that same time to serve as the owner of Quest and its sister network, Justice Network) and Tegna Inc. The network was given an expected launch date of January 2018. Tegna tapped several of its 46 owned or operated television stations to serve as the network's charter affiliates, in exchange for maintaining a minority ownership stake in the network.
The network was officially launched on January 29, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time with an episode ("Air Ambush") of the 2006–08 History series Dogfights as the network's inaugural program.
In May 2019, it was announced that Tegna would be acquiring both the Justice Network and Quest.
Programming
Quest's program schedule consists of a mix of programs that originally aired on A&E, Discovery, History, Smithsonian, and truTV cable networks, as well as those which premiered in 3D (aired on Quest in traditional 2D) from the now-defunct DirecTV channel 3net:
Auction Kings
Aussie Gold Hunters
Black Gold
Chasing Monsters
Combat Dealers
Doomsday Preppers
Dual Survival
Factory Made
Fish Tank Kings
Food Factory USA
Full Throttle Saloon
Giant Lobster Hunters
Hardcore Pawn
Hunting Hitler
Lizard Lick Towing
Machines: How They Work
Made by Destruction
Mayday: Air Disaster
Mega Builders
Mega Shippers
MonsterQuest
Most Daring
Seconds from Disaster
Shipping Wars
South Beach Tow
Storage Hunters
Storage Wars Canada
Storm Chasers
Swords
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Yukon Gold
Affiliates
, Quest has affiliation agreements with television stations in 67 media markets (including 24 of the top 30) encompassing 35 states, covering 60.81% of all households with at least one television set in the United States.
When its launch was announced, the network reached a charter affiliation agreement with network co-partner Tegna, which initially planned to debut the network on 22 of its television stations. On December 20, 2017, the network signed a multi-station agreement with Spanish-language broadcaster TelevisaUnivision USA to carry its programming on five of its Univision and UniMás owned-and-operated television stations as well as one station affiliated with Justice Network.
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